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Space

NASA Awards Boeing Additional $2.8 Billion For SLS

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

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NASA Awards Boeing Additional $2.8 Billion For SLS

NASA and ATK engineers complete structural loads testing on the Space Launch System (SLS) booster forward skirt at ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah. Photo: ATK.

Boeing [BA] said Wednesday it finalized a $2.8 billion contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS). This latest contract combines the two Ares contracts previously awarded for the core and upper stages, for which Boeing had been chosen as the prime contractor during a competitive selection in 2007. The new combined SLS contract is also modified to meet the NASA Authorization Act of 2010. It will now extend…

Congress

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